The Grieving Process

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Grief is a natural process that's painful, personal, and normal. Grief allows a person to come to terms with a significant loss, and make sense of their new reality without a loved one. In most cases, grief will resolve itself with the passage of time, and psychotherapy is unnecessary.
Other times, grief can become complicated and fail to resolve...

Goodbye Letter

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Help children and adolescents process their grief using the Goodbye Letter writing exercise. Your client will be asked to describe who they are grieving, special memories with that person, and lessons learned from the relationship.
The goal of this grief worksheet is to build positive meaning associated with the lost relationship, and to begin moving toward closure...

My Stages of Grief

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Help your clients process their loss by thinking about how they have related to each of the Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance). If your client feels that they have gotten stuck in one of the stages, encourage them to explore this point more deeply...

The Stages of Grief (Education Printout)

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The five stages of grief defined by Kübler-Ross in 1969 have helped countless people make sense of the feelings that they experienced after a painful loss. In this handout, each of the five stages (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) are explained.
Use this worksheet as an education piece and allow your clients to identify how they have personally experienced the stages...

Grief Sentence Completion

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Help children and adolescents begin to process their grief using the Grief Sentence Completion exercise. Starting a conversation about loss can be difficult for anyone, and this worksheet will allow your clients to begin expressing themselves more easily with the help of prompts.
Example statements include: "The thing I miss most about the person who I lost is...

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